Digitization has brought the five hundred-year-old Gutenberg era to
an end. Gutenberg’s press opened the gates to our modern rational,
secular world. The cultural impact of today’s digital technologies,
which will bring multilingual literacy to the far corners of the earth,
foreshadows far greater changes. Gutenberg’s contemporaries could
not begin to imagine the effect of movable type on the centuries to
come, nor can we imagine the far greater changes that digitization
will bring, but we can see even now that the book publishing industry
is in for a radical transformation.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9507
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